They hold out a little while--a very little; then they open their stores on Sunday, they import cargoes of Africans, they bribe the officials, they smuggle goods, they have colored housekeepers.

My-de'-seh, the water must expect to take the shape of the bucket; eh ?" "One need not be water!" said the immigrant.
"Ah!" said the Creole, with another amiable shrug, and a wave of his hand; "certainly you do not suppose that is my advice--that those things have my approval." Must we repeat already that Frowenfeld was abnormally young?
"Why have they not your condemnation ?" cried he with an earnestness that made the Creole's horse drop the grass from his teeth and wheel half around.
The answer came slowly and gently.
"Mr.Frowenfeld, my habit is to buy cheap and sell at a profit.

My condemnation?
My-de'-seh, there is no sa-a-ale for it! it spoils the sale of other goods my-de'-seh.

It is not to condemn that you want; you want to suc-_ceed_.

Ha, ha, ha! you see I am a merchant, eh?
My-de'-seh, can _you_ afford not to succeed ?" The speaker had grown very much in earnest in the course of these few words, and as he asked the closing question, arose, arranged his horse's bridle and, with his elbow in the saddle, leaned his handsome head on his equally beautiful hand.